THIS BLOG HAS BEEN A BIT DORMANT LATELY, NO EXCUSES, BUT WE WANTED TO START A SECTION PROVIDING FOOD FOR THOUGHT– ORIGINAL, STRIKING QUOTES FROM PROGRESSIVE TYPES FROM AROUND THE WORLD FOR THE LAST FEW CENTURIES.
We’ll start with is one from C.S. Lewis (1863-1929), the Anglo-Irish folklorist, Oxford scholar, and fantasy novelist famous for THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS and much else. Attribution goes to the Inspiring Quote” from the website The Thoughtful Mind, March 30, 2014. To them goes all of the credit
for this gem, but to us comes the opportunity to deconstruct it for future discussion– so very relevant to our times
And we have added below Lewis, same source, April 3, 2014, a gem from Friedrich N., who needs no introduction. Is there a connection?
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Here are two of my favorites:
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain.
from “The Maid of Orleans” by Friedrich Schiller
Tommorrow and tommorrow creeps into this petty place day by day.
Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
from “Macbeth” by Shakespeare.
Just in case you don’t get it, the second one says that people make a lot of noise
but don’t accomplish very much.
This is NOT meant as a critique of this sight but more of a sarcastic view of the human condition.
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Thanks for this worthy follow-up and provocative reminder of the staying power of great literature and pithy quotes, Bruce.
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